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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!convex!darwin.sura.net!spool.mu.edu!sdd.hp.com!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!bert.eecs.uic.edu!uicvm.uic.edu!u52809
  2. Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
  3. Date: Monday, 21 Dec 1992 09:59:38 CST
  4. From: Chuck Amsler <U52809@uicvm.uic.edu>
  5. Message-ID: <92356.095938U52809@uicvm.uic.edu>
  6. Newsgroups: rec.backcountry
  7. Subject: Re: XC SKI bindings - recommendations wanted
  8. Distribution: rec.backcountry
  9. References:  <VAISEY.92Dec18093631@jacobi.sfu.ca>
  10. Lines: 10
  11.  
  12. Check out the rec.skiing XC FAQ, especially for backcountry equipment info.
  13. (I *think* it's #3 in the rec.skiing FAQ series.)
  14.  
  15.   -- Chuck Amsler       U52809@UICVM.UIC.EDU        Univ. of Ill. @ Chicago
  16. _____________________________________________________________________________
  17. The world's oldest ... ski race, the Vasaloppet, annually attracts about 9000
  18. Sweeds and about 1500 foreigners....  In completing the 85-km course, the
  19. average racer loses four to five pounds ... equivalent to having 280 racers
  20. disappear completely during the course of the event.
  21.                          -- J. Caldwell & M. Brady (1982) _Citizen Racing_
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